Definition

Information relating to the publication, printing, distribution, issue, release or production of a work.

For unpublished items or materials that are collectively controlled, field 260 may not be included in a record or may contain only subfield ‡c (Date of publication, distribution, etc.) .

Guidelines

Use the following guidelines for entering data in field 260:

Enter multiple place names or publisher names in separate subfields.

Enter multiple occurrences of other components, such as dates, in separate subfields only if a different type of component intervenes.

Enter components of "real" imprints (carried in brackets and identified by the phrase i.e.) in separate subfields only if a different type of component intervenes.

Enter the qualification of a place in the same subfield as the place name.

Enter the statement of the function of a publisher in the same subfield as the publisher's name.

In Connexion client, if field 260 subfield ‡ c contains a date and in the fixed field Dates, element Date 1 is blank, the client transfers the date in 260 subfield ‡ c to Date 1 upon reformatting the record.

Do not enter field 260 in the same record with field 261 or field 262.

VIS

If you are cataloging locally produced audiovisual items and off-air videorecordings that are not released, published, or similarly issued in multiple copies as an edition, you may enter only a date in field 260. Or, if you enter the date elsewhere in the record, you do not have to enter any information in field 260. See section 3.7, " Locally Made Videorecordings," for more information.

If you are inputting audiovisual media cataloging created prior to AACR1 revised chapter 12 cataloging rules (which follow ISBD specifications), use field 261 for production and release information (Connexion does not automatically transfer dates from field 261).

If you are cataloging two-dimensional nonprojected graphic materials, use field 260 for publication data for both pre-AACR2 and AACR2 records.

Archival material

Use field 260 for the date or inclusive dates for a single manuscript or a collection, unless the date is part of the title.

REC

If you are inputting pre-AACR2 cataloging, use field 262 for imprint information (Connexion does not automatically transfer dates from field 262).

The producer is the person or corporate body with the financial and/or administrative responsibility for the physical processes whereby the file is brought into existence. The producer may also be responsible for the collection of data and their conversion into machine-readable form.

A distributor is a person or organization designated by the author or producer to reproduce copies of the file.

A generator is a person or corporate body with responsibility for the physical process by which a file is converted into machine-readable form (e.g., keypunching), but whose responsibility does not extend beyond data conversion.

1st Indicator

Sequence of publishing statements.

Not applicable/no information provided/earliest available publisher. Used when a resource is first cataloged. Information given in first indicator value is not changed (unless incorrect or earlier issues of a serial are later available with differing publishing information). Defined as "No information provided" for monographic works that are complete as first issued. Only one publishing statement may contain first indicator value in a record.

Intervening publisher. Used when the publisher or place of publication changes. Additional publishing statements between the earliest and latest may also be recorded with first indicator value 2.

260

2

‡3 1980-May 1993 ‡a London : ‡b Vogue

3

Current/latest publisher. Used when the publisher changes or when the place of publication associated with the earliest publisher changes. The current publishing statement may be added with first indicator value 3. Data given in a subsequent publishing statement can be changed to reflect the current information when only the earliest and most current data is needed.

London : ‡b Shepherd-Walwyn ; ‡a New York : ‡b Distributed by International Publications Service

If the probable publisher, distributor, etc., is unknown, use the abbreviation [s.n.].

260

London : ‡b [s.n.]

260

[S.l. : ‡b s.n.]

CNR

Enter only the first publisher or distributor in field 260. Enter the names of later publishers in note form in the appropriate 5xx Fields. Enter any necessary added entries in field 700, field 710 or field 711.

‡c Date of publication, distribution, etc.

The date of publication.

If the date of manufacture is substituted for the date of publication, use subfield ‡c. If there is a date of publication and a date of manufacture, use subfield ‡g for the date of manufacture.

The date represents the date of publication of the edition specified in field 250, not the date of a subsequent printing. A difference in the date of publication of an edition justifies a new record. If the date is unknown or estimated (e.g., [197-?.] vs. [1965?]), use judgment.

Summary of Field 260 ‡c, Date of Publication

Book

Publication Date

Copyright Date

Printing Date

Field 260 ‡c

DtSt /

Date1

Publication date only

2001

2001

s / 2001

Copyright date only

c2000

c2000

s / 2000

Printing date only

2001 printing

[2001]

s / 2001

Printing date only [not 1st impression]

15th impression, 2001

[2001]

s / 2001

Publication date = copyright date

2001

c2001

2001

s / 2001

Publication date > copyright date

2001

c2000

2001

s / 2001

Publication date < copyright date

2000

c2001

2000

s / 2000

Publication date < 1st impression date

2000

1st printing, 2001

2000 [i.e., 2001]

s / 2001

Publication date < other impression date (not 1st)

2000

15th impression, 2001

2000

s / 2000

Copyright date = year of manufacture

c2000

2000 printing

c2000

s / 2000

Copyright date does not = year of manufacture

c2000

2001 printing

c2000

s / 2000

Explicit copyright renewal dates ignored for works copyrighted before 1978

c1925, copyright renewed 1953

c1925

s / 1925

Multiple copyright dates with first date after 1977

c1978,...

c2001

c2001

s / 2001

Received in [year]; publication date in year following

2002 [book received in 2001]

2002

s / 2002

Received in [year]; copyright date in year following

c2002 [book received in 2001]

c2002

s / 2002

Table adapted from an original reprinted by permission of The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

260

Stony Brook, N.Y. : ‡b Krell Software Corp., ‡c c1982.

260

[Chicago, Ill.] : ‡b Produced by National Opinion Research Center as part of the National Data Program for the Social Sciences ; ‡a Storrs [Conn.] : ‡b Data distributed by Roper Public Opinion Research Center, University of Connecticut, ‡c 1980.

Enter the date in field 260, even if it coincides with the date given in a "formatted" 362 field.

260

Mount Vernon, NY : ‡b Consumers Union of United States, ‡c 1942-

362

Vol. 7, no. 6 (June 1942)-

If no subfield ‡c is present (because the cataloging is not based on the first issue), do not use any final punctuation at the end of the data in subfield ‡b.

260

Des Moines, IA : ‡b Special Interest Publications

500

Description based on: Fall 1981; title from cover.

COM guidelines for ‡c

These are the dates of first availability (publication) of some of the major computer file media. Dates earlier than these cannot be a proper date of publication for that computer file medium. Earlier dates may represent such bibliographic events as release date in a different computer file medium, etc.

3 1/2 inch floppy disk: 1982

5 1/2 inch floppy disk: 1976

8 inch floppy disk: 1971

CD-ROM: 1985

DVD-ROM: 1996

Electronic files remotely accessed via the World Wide Web: 1991

REC guidelines for ‡c

If the date of recording differs from the date of publication, enter the recording in coded form in field 033 and in textual form in field 518.

033

0

0

1961----

260

[New York] : ‡b Music Guild, ‡c 1971.

518

Recorded in 1961.

These are the dates of first availability (publication) of some of the major audio media. Dates earlier than these cannot be a proper date of publication for that audio medium. Earlier dates may represent such bibliographic events as date of sound capture, release date in a different audio medium, etc.

Audio cassette: 1965

Audio CD: 1982

DVD-Audio: 2000

LP: 1948

Playaway: 2005

Reel-to-reel tape: 1954

Streaming audio: 1999

VIS guidelines for ‡c

These are the dates of first availability (publication) of some of the major videorecording media. Dates earlier than these cannot be a proper date of publication for that videorecording medium. Earlier dates may represent such bibliographic events as release date in a different videorecording medium, etc.

Prior to AACR2, practice was to enter the plate number or publisher number in the imprint. AACR2 prescribes that you enter the plate or publisher number as a note ( field 028 and/or field 500). Pre-AACR2 records may have plate or publisher numbers in field 260. Do not use subfield ‡d for plate or publisher numbers for current cataloging.

260

0

[Zürich] ‡b Universal Edition ‡c [c1965] ‡d Pl. no. UE 135312.

[Pre-AACR2.]

‡e Place of manufacture

Enter place of manufacture only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.

260

[S.l. : ‡b s.n.], ‡c 1991 ‡e (London)

‡f Manufacturer

Enter manufacturer only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.

260

Paris : ‡b [s.n., ‡c ca. 1898] ‡e (Paris : ‡f LeBrun)

‡g Date of manufacture

Enter date of manufacture only if necessary to identify the item. Ordinarily, do not enter the information to represent different printings of the same edition.

260

London : ‡b Laurie & Whittle, ‡c 1804 ‡g (1810 printing)

‡3 Materials specified

Information to differentiate the multiple statements of the described materials to which the field applies.